People Share The Small, Annoying ‘Injuries’ That Are Way More Painful Than They Should Be (20 Posts)

There’s nothing more aggravating than a tiny injury that also happens to be incredibly painful. Think about the last time you stubbed your big toe—or worse, your pinky toe. Yeah. Not only does it hurt WAY MORE than it should, but you also feel like a complete moron. It’s adding literal insult to injury and in the case of paper cuts, pouring salt in the wound too.

Redditor u/FreshwaterOctopus recently asked:

“What is way more physically painful than it should be?”

And chances are you’re probably gonna wince at more than one of these excruciating yet common minor injuries.

1. Biting your cheek

Biting the same spot in your mouth over again. –Contriived

2. Nose zits

Those pimples you get inside your nose –ddbaxte

3. Hangnails

Those tiny bits of skin next to your nails that peel off. –TheVantal

4. Especially with hand sanitizer

Paper cuts –MrBirb_

5. Preach

Getting up to go to work on Monday morning. –macaronsforeveryone

6. Hurts just reading it

Ripped cuticle –PresentAd7892

7. Nose bop

Unexpected hit to the nose. Doesn’t even have to be that hard. Makes you tear up even as a sting fills the front of your face. –Wild_Preference_9749

8. Sensitive teeth

Teeth sensitivity problem –hellotawsif

9. Smacking the back of your hand

Hitting the back of your hand on something as you walk by. I did that on a metal sink a couple times at work. Metal corner right into the bone on the back of the hand. Excruciatingly painful. –MrSandman000

10. Betrayed by a snack

Getting stabbed by a dorito in the upper ceiling of the mouth. –Daiki_438

11. Thorn prick

I was gardening. Got poked by a rose thorn. Yes the thorn hurt but for the next few days the finger it poked had the most excruciating pain when I bend my joints. It was awful. –shaka_sulu

12. Scorched taste bud

Dead tastebuds! Or whatever it is when just one tiny bud gets all sore on your tongue. That shit hurts. –Unstableisland

13. Classic dumb injury

Stubbing your goddamn toe. –The-Purple-Guy1987

14. Ingrown nails

Ingrown toenails! –9mmway

15. Surprise leg cramps

That fucking muscle cramp you get in your leg out of nowhere while you’re sleeping. It’s so painful I jump around in my bed the same way a fish does when it’s pulled out of the water. –Boring-Working-5509

16. Period pain

Period pain. –beyonceuponatime88

Was scrolling for this. Currently curled around a heat pad, full of painkillers and still dying. –DiligentDaughter

17. Shin injuries

Hitting your shin. Why were we built with zero shin protection?? –nate6259

18. Nothing funny about it

When you hit that bundle of nerves in your elbow, aka the “funny bone”. Not sure which is worse, the fact we actually evolved to have something like that, or that someone decided “funny bone” was a good slang term for it. –MysteryGirlWhite

19. Headaches

Severe headaches that lasts the entire day. –Mac_edthur

20. Brain freeze

Brain freeze. Nothing should be remotely painful from eating ice cream. –shaka_sulu